WHAT’S NEXTThe Chickamauga Planning Commission meets at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Chickamauga Civic Center at 1817 Lee Clarkson Road.
CHICKAMAUGA, Ga. – “Help!!”
So begins a note taped to the front counter of the Academy for Little People, pleading for parents to sign a petition against a shooting range proposed across LaFayette Road from the day care center.
“That building right there is 356 feet from my playground,” day care Director Sharon Armour said Tuesday afternoon. “I’m not opposed to guns. I’m all for a person’s rights to bear arms. But I do not want guns going off this close to a child care center.”
Armour will present the petitions to the Chickamauga Planning Commission Thursday night. She’ll urge commissioners to reject a proposal by Paul Chapman to open a shooting range behind a metal-sided building at 1568 LaFayette Road that previously housed G&H Farm & Garden supply.